The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

* 1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his " March to the Sea ".

On March 2, 1864, the Russian authority — compelled by the uprising to compete for the loyalty of Polish peasants — officially published an enfranchisement decree in the Kingdom, along the lines of an earlier insurgent land reform proclamation.

Iowa subsequently designated Iowa State as the land-grant college on March 29, 1864.

Jean-Jacques Ampère ( 12 August 1800 – 27 March 1864 ) was a French philologist and man of letters.

# Elizabeth Ballister Abbott ( March 15, 1847 – February 23, 1864 )

His father, Franjo Broz ( 26 November 1860 – 16 December 1936, Zagreb, buried at Mirogoj ), was a Croat, while his mother Marija ( born Javeršek, 25 March 1864, Loka pri Podsredi – 14 January 1918, Kupinec ), was a Slovene.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman's ' March to the Sea ' in November / December 1864 destroyed the resources required for the South to make war.

* March 9 – Frank Wedekind, German playwright ( b. 1864 )

* March 28 – Ban Johnson, American baseball executive ( b. 1864 )

* March 10 – Tully Marshall, American actor ( b. 1864 )

* March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter ( b. 1864 )

* March 16 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist leader ( b. 1864 )

* March 9 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist ( b. 1864 )

* March 28 – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general ( b. 1864 )

* March 13 – Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician ( d. 1864 )

On 29 March 1864, the United Kingdom, Greece, France and Russia signed the Treaty of London, pledging the transfer of sovereignty to Greece upon ratification.

At the end of this campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, his troops captured Savannah on December 21, 1864.

In December 1864, a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea.

In March 1864, Grant was summoned from the Western Theater, promoted to lieutenant general, and given command of all Union armies.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

( New York Times: Dash to Baghdad Left Top US Generals Divided 13 March 2006 ) More generally, they argue Franks ' command was somewhat understandably focused on the immediate task in front of it – defeating Saddam Hussein and taking Baghdad – and few were willing to divert resources away from that effort and toward the long-term post-war needs.

* March 3 – A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico.

On March 15, 1781, the Battle of Guilford Court House was fought just north of present-day Greensboro between Generals Charles Cornwallis and Nathanael Greene during the American Revolution.

" He sailed for America in March 1775, accompanied by Major Generals Henry Clinton and John Burgoyne.

On March 6, 2008, the Oshawa Generals retired his # 88, just the second number to be retired by the franchise, and it was declared Eric Lindros Day in Oshawa.

In the evening of March 13, Jozef Tiso ( the Slovak leader ) and Ďurčanský met German leader Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Generals Walther von Brauchitsch and Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin.

Generals Gustavo Fara and Sante Ceccherini assisted to the preparations of the March of 18 October.

They notched the only two crowds of 70, 000 or greater in league history, including a throng of 73, 227 against the powerful New Jersey Generals on March 4.

On 17 March 1941 Hitler in a secret meeting with Halder and the rest of the most senior Generals stated that for Barbarossa, Germany was to disregard all of the rules of war, and the war against the Soviet Union was to be a war of extermination.

On 20 March Paget met with Generals Rolt, Cuthbert, Gough, Fergusson, and three staff officers, at his Parkgate Street H. Q.

On March 27 or 28, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln met at City Point with Generals Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman along with Admiral David Porter aboard the River Queen, as depicted by G. P. A Healy's 1868 painting The Peacemakers.

The corps was organized under General Orders No. 101, March 21, 1862, which assigned Brigadier General Edwin Vose Sumner to its command, and Brigadier Generals Israel B. Richardson, John Sedgwick, and Louis Blenker to the command of its divisions.

The Corps was organized March 13, 1862, commanded by Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, with Generals Joseph Hooker, Charles S. Hamilton, and Fitz John Porter as its three division commanders.

On January 27, 2007, Oshawa, Ontario declared March 20 of that year ( John Gray's birthday ) Stephen Colbert Day after mayor John Gray bet Colbert that the Oshawa Generals would beat the Spirit, and Saginaw won 5 – 4.

Kelly was inducted into the Roanoke Hall of Fame and the Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown of Welland, Ontario in 1998, and in March 2002 he became the first inductee into the Greensboro Hockey Hall of Fame when the Generals retired his uniform number ( 5 ).

On March 29, 1968, The Night of the Generals was screened at several Cinelândia movie theaters in order to protest the murder of 18-year-old high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto by the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro.

On 24 and 25 March, a group of Pakistani Generals, accompanied by General Hamid, General Mittha, the Quartermaster General, and Col. Saadullah, Principal Staff Officer, visited major garrisons via helicopter and personally briefed garrison commanders and senior West Pakistani officers on the operation.

The main reason Generals Farman and Yakub had opposed any military action against civilians in East Pakistan was the fear of an Indian attack, which the Pakistan army was woefully unprepared to meet in March 1971.

In March 1864, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman met at the Galt House to plan the invasion that led to the successful capture of Atlanta, Georgia and Sherman's March to the Sea.

Obata Masamori ( 小幡昌盛 ) ( 1534 – March 29, 1582 ), also known as Obata Nobusada, was one of Takeda Shingen's ' Twenty-four Generals ', his most trusted commanders.